Interview with Raymond D. Fogelson (1933–2020)

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Notes

1 David McClelland (1917–1998), a prominent American psychologist.

2 Joseph J. Greenbaum (1924–2011), a prominent experimental psychologist.

3 David Park McAllester (1916–2006), professor of Anthropology and Music at Wesleyan University between 1948 and 1986.

4 Norman Olive Brown (1913–2002).

5 John Whithoft worked at the Pennsylvania State Museum from 1948 to 1966, while serving at state archaeologist, state anthropologist, and chief curator

6 On another occasion, Fogelson described this kind of fieldwork to me as “observant participation.”

7 Between January 1990 and November 1992, Dickson Mounds became the focus of a controversy surrounding its display of human remains as part of its exhibit. Eventually, a compromise was reached whereby the skeletal remains were entombed. Additionally, the State of Illinois appropriated money for the renovation of the Museum and the construction of new exhibits. On September 14, 1994, a dramatically new Dickson Mounds Museum reopened to the public.

8 Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994.

9 This refers to Pauline Turner Strong, co-editor with Kan of the Fogelson festschrift. She published a series of Wikipedia articles on the contributors to the volume.

10 Pauline Turner Strong wrote part of the draft for the Fogelson festschrift.

11 Sergei Kan was in residence at the University of Chicago Anthropology Department in 1976–1979 and received his Ph.D. there in 1982.

12 Marshall Sahlins was hired in 1974.

13 Between 1960 and 1970, Geertz served as a research scholar, a lecturer, and an assistant professor of social anthropology at the University of Chicago.

14 David Murray Schneider (1918–1995) joined the University of Chicago anthropology department in 1960 and retired from it in 1986. He was the chairman of the department in 1963–1966.

15 The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library was established in 1972.

16 D’Arcy McNickle died in 1977.

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Sergei Kan

SERGEI KAN (b. 1953) began his graduate education in the Soviet Union and completed it in the United States after coming here in 1974, receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1982. Since 1989 he has been a Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He specializes in Native American ethnology and ethnohistory with a special focus on the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska as well as in ethnohistory, history of anthropology, anthropology of death and anthropology of religion. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including Symbolic Immortality: Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist, and Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser.